úll

See also: ull

Irish

Alternative forms

• ubhall (superseded)
• úlla (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

From Old Irish uball, ubull (compare Scottish Gaelic ubhal), from Proto-Celtic *abalom (compare Welsh afal), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl (compare English apple, Lithuanian obuolỹs, Russian я́блоко (jábloko), Serbo-Croatian jȁbuka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːl̪ˠ/

Noun

úll m (genitive singular úill, nominative plural úlla)

1. apple
2. (anatomy) ball-and-socket joint
3. globular object, ball

Declension

Declension of úll

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative úll úlla Vocative a úill a úlla Genitive úill úll Dative úll úlla

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-úll na húlla Genitive an úill na n-úll Dative leis an úll don úll leis na húlla

Derived terms

• alt úll is cuas m (“ball and socket joint”)
• anlann úll m (“apple sauce”)
• fia-úll m (“crab-apple”)
• leann úll m (“cider”)
• pióg úll f (“apple pie”)
• rua-úll m (“russet”)
• úll an chromáin m, úll na leise m (“hip-joint”)
• úll an mhadra rua m (“tutsan”)
• úll caithne m (“arbutus-berry”)
• úll claímh m (“pommel of sword”)
• úll dorais m (“door-knob”)
• úll fiáin m (“crab-apple”)
• úll géar m (“cooking-apple”)
• úll gráinneach m (“pomegranate”)
• úll luaidhe m (“lead ball”)
• úll milis m (“eating-apple”)
• úll na brád m, úll na scornaí m (“Adam's apple”)
• úll na haithne m (“forbidden fruit”)
• úll na huillinne m (“elbow-joint”)
• úll óir m (“golden apple, precious thing”)
• úll práis m (“brass ball”)
• úll scéithe m (“boss of shield”)
• úll soirb m (“sorb-apple”)
• úlla clis m pl (“juggler's balls”)
• úlla prátaí m (“potato-apples”)
• úllach (“bearing apples; abounding in apples”, adjective)
• úllachán m (“little apple; little ball (of thread, etc.)”)
• úllgharraí m (“orchard”)
• úllghlas (“apple-green”, adjective)
• úllmhaighdeog f (“ball-pivot”)
• úllóg f (“apple charlotte”)
• úllord m (“orchard”)
• úllsclóin f (“ball-swivel”)

 

Related terms

• abhaill f (“apple tree”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
úll	n-úll	húll	t-úll
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “úll”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “úll”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “úll”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uball, ubull”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language